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Introducing Jack-O-Juke: I-Mockery’s Halloween Music Jukebox!

One year ago, I went to the local cemetery during a full moon, dug a grave, and buried a jukebox in it. I would explain why I did this, but why creep you out with the gruesome details of my nocturnal October activities? So anyway, I returned to the cemetery last night, dug up that same jukebox, plugged it in, and discovered something truly horrifying...

It had become the Jack-O-Juke!

The Jack-O-Juke is a jukebox filled with over 180 horrifying Halloween songs to keep your decaying ears bleeding with ghoulish glee all season long. Feel free to keep the Jack-O-Juke open in a separate window so you can listen to all of the hand-picked tunes while still checking out all the latest article offerings here on I-Mockery.

I've received so many emails over the years from people asking me to set up a Halloween music jukebox on the site, I figured it was high time I oblige you guys before you decided to break into my home and eat my skull. With the help of some kind chums who donated their time, I gathered all kinds of killer Halloween songs, from the classics we all know and love to the completely obscure, and added them to this jukebox. I hope this new feature makes your Halloween season even more enjoyable than it already is... and I also hope it doesn't kill my server with all the bandwidth it's surely going to devour.

If you would like to help me out with the bandwidth costs, please consider purchasing our official 8-Bit Halloween print or anything else from our store. Every purchase helps cover my hefty hosting bills!

Have a song to suggest? If there's a Halloween tune that you feel is worthy of a permanent spot in the Jack-O-Juke, please post it here in this blog thread. This thread will be the permanent home for all spooky song suggestions, so feel free to return with all the ideas you can come up with. I can't promise I'll add anything you suggest, but I'll certainly keep an open mind about any haunted Halloween anthems you can come up with.

Alright, that's enough blabber. Start listening to the Halloween songs, please spread the word, and lemme know what you think!

I was a little embarrassed to suggest it, but I see WhiteRoseBrian is on the same page.. It doesn't get spookier than http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01171/
the violins are even a little out of tune, giving it a 'black and white film' sound..

There's a lot of variety on there. I was going to suggest Crypt by Power Glove, but it's already there! Its like the jack-o-juke can read minds. If so, I'm thinking the original Dawn of the Dead theme would be a good addition. Also some songs by Deadbolt.

Alrighty, I just updated it with a significantly larger viewable tracklist area, so you should now able to see six tracks at a time. That's about as much as I'm gonna enlarge it at the moment. You may need to clear your cache for it to appear properly.

Keep the song suggestions coming everybody... great stuff so far! Hope you're all enjoying the Jack-O-Juke cuz it was a LOT of work putting it together. Hope each of you have discovered at least a few new tunes you'll always want to listen to come Halloween season every year!

So many great suggestions... looks like I'm gonna have to buy some more Halloween music in the near future. I wanna get the Jack-O-Juke to over 200 songs, so I'll do my best to check all of them out and add the ones that I like most to the playlist. Thanks all, and keep those suggestions coming!

(By the way - be sure to check the full playlist before you make a suggestion, because your song idea may already be on it.)

This is a great idea and there are some good tracks. However, songs like "Ghost Town" by the Specials have absolutely nothing to do with Halloween ("This place is coming like a ghost town. No job to be found in this country."). It's the problem so many people have when doing a compilation like this; you can't take everything literally.

Alice Cooper - I love the dead
Tsunami Bomb - The Invasion from Within
The Misfits - Halloween
The Misfits - Scream
The Misfits -Dig up her Bone
Bathory - Call from the Grave
Iron Maiden -Fear of the Dark
Just bear with me Rog. I'm not a ghost that haunt the living.I'm a troll we can still work together ,right? This is October after all

I've added some more songs to the Jack-O-Juke based on some of your suggestions. Still have a lot more of your suggestions to get to, but making progress. Keep posting those great ideas for spooky tunes to add to the playlist!

chuck (Guest)
on 10/20/2012 6:59 am

ZOMBIE WOOF BY FRANK ZAPPA!!!!!

KidAOk85 (Guest)
on 10/21/2012 2:38 pm

One of my fav Halloween songs has always been the Child's Play 2 theme. Gotta love creepy circus-y music this time of year

Please pardon the double-posting, but I just thought of this too. There's a tone poem from Rachmaninov called Isle of the Dead. It is over twenty minutes long. That would be far too long your jukebox, wouldn't it?

I've made my own Halloween mashup mix. Full of classic stuff by John Carpenter and Goblin mashed up with Hip Hop and Electro. If anyone's gonna enjoy a mix like that it's surely i-Mockers? Feel free to steal ideas from the tracklist below!

I'm surprised the Main Theme from A Nightmare on Elm Street isn't already on your playlist.

Terri (Guest)
on 10/23/2013 6:53 pm

How about the theme from the Saw movies?

Vincent (Guest)
on 10/24/2013 3:12 pm

You should add this classic from Bob Marley and the Wailers. It is known as "Mr. Brown". The original version that came out in 1970 was rumored to be about a ghost. Even before you hear the words, the instrumental has noises that pretty much sounds like spooky howling. That's why on some later compilations the song has also been titled "Dracula" as well!

Just listen to the original, it is better than the 2008 Angry Kids remix.

Last year i compiled 31 volumes with different Halloweenish topics and a total of 320 songs that I made available for people to get. Last month I finished compiling 310 new songs for this years mixes. This September i will be re-upping 2013's mixes once a day and will continue into October with my 31 new volumes! 630 tracks to add to your collection! Stay tuned Halloweenheads!

BTW, Big Daddy is making a video of this song to be released later in October.

Nelson (Guest)
on 09/28/2014 12:20 pm

I've been collecting Halloween songs for over a decade because I love Halloween so much and those songs are much harder to find, unlike Christmas songs. So here's a list of some great Halloween songs that should be in your jukebox.

My first suggestion for the Jack-O-Juke is a great Halloween tune that debuted this month! Are you ready for Freddy? Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon that is, whose "The Svengoolie Stomp" is a tribute song to the horror host who humorously presents cheesy old B movies (like Elvira, Mystery Science Theater 3000, or Doc Mock), and it captures that cheesy-but-fun tone perfectly in audio form.

"All Hallow's Eve" and/or "The Most Horrible One" from the Meet Me In St. Louis soundtrack

The movie gets associated more with Christmas due to the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. And so the segment that takes place during Halloween is usually overlooked, but it's a spot-on mini-movie; the two instrumental tracks during that part are quite different from what modern ears associate with "Halloween music" but they work marvelously at creating an eerie, foreboding atmosphere.

There's an elaborate intro verse that I've never heard in any other version of the song. Including a part where she reels off all sorts of crazy monsters, which sounds like the titles in the greatest horror marathon ever:
"The Thing, The Fly, The Mole People, The Gamma People, The Indestructible Fossil Man, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Body Snatchers, The High Incredible Brain Scratchers. I Was a Teenage Werewolf. I Was a 50 Foot Woman!"

The Goosebumps movie with Jack Black was surprisingly good both cinematically and musically. Danny Elfman's spooky instrumental soundtrack is lots of fun, plus it inspired this Addams Groove-style cheesy rap song, complete with an equally cheesy music video!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heBMsH0NkXg

While "Thriller" has been in the Juke since the beginning for obvious reasons, it'd be cool to add Elmer Bernstein's instrumental score from the music video... it's literally called the "Scary Music" in the end credits!

Back in 2002, Mark cut a music video from a mailing list's footage of various Halloween projects, and wound up going with his temp music track in the final video. While he calls his mix of computer-generated drum-machine beats and Wiliam Shatner-style speak-singing "pathetic" and insists that he has "no music ability or talent at all", I find its handmade quality and raw enthusiasm for Halloween charming. It'd actually fit in just fine with the more polished songs in the Juke, as long as Mark isn't too embarrassed by it ;)

Of all Mr. Monster Mash's novelty tunes, this is the one that feels the most different from his signature song... even if the werewolf-themed ditty merely blatantly copies from Alley Oop by The Hollywood Argyles rather than from The Monster Mash!